CTV News Toronto at Six for Oct. 1, 2025

The Toronto Blue Jays are the hottest tickets in town and fans are getting serious sticker shock when trying to purchase a seat to the first two games of the upcoming ALCS; a pedestrian is critically injured after being struck by a vehicle on Lansdowne Ave.; and, questions are being asked about millions of dollars handed out under a provincial skills development fund.

The Blue Jays reach the next step in their playoff journey after knocking off the New York Yankees and punching their ticket to the ALCS; a 23-year-old man is facing murder charges and a man in his 50s is dead after what police are describing as an unprovoked attack in Richmond Hill; and, a Toronto man loses $80K after falling for a romance scam linked to a cryptocurrency scam.

The Toronto Blue Jays fail to sweep the Yankees in Game 3 of the ALDS but hope to eliminate them in Game 4; five teens are arrested after a brazen smash-and-grab robbery at a jewelry store inside the Oshawa Centre; and, a Toronto hospital performs the transplant of a heart that was revived after the donor died.

Blue Jays and Yankees fans are both feeling the pressure as the teams prepare to square off in Game 3 of the ALDS at Yankee Stadium; a sombre day of reflection on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack in Israel; and, Premier Doug Ford says he won't change his position on removing speed enforcement cameras from Ontario streets.

Blue Jays fans are buzzing as the team prepares to try to sweep the Yankees in New York in Game 3 of the ALDS; Premier Doug Ford threatens to pull one of the most popular liquor brands off LCBO shelves over Diageo's plans to close an Ontario bottling plant; and, the Ontario NDP calls for change after hundreds of thousands of Highway Traffic Act charges never made it to trial.

The Blue Jays welcome the New York Yankees to Toronto as they prepare to square off in Game 1 of the ALDS; residents of a neighbourhood in the west end are displaced after a fire broke out in a vacant home and spread to other buildings; and, a 19-year-old who was shot and killed inside of Scarborough Town Centre is honoured at a vigil.

A Mississauga family speaks out after video captures masked men breaking in their door in broad daylight; a joint forces investigation dubbed 'Project Road King' seizes guns, drugs, cash and dozens of stolen vehicles; and, thousands of striking college support workers are joined by students, faculty and other unions at rallies across several campuses.

Ontario’s environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target but the auditor general says even that admission of failure is downplayed.

People came together across the city to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and reflect on the horrors faced by survivors of the residential school system.

Alejandro Kirk hit two homers and drove in six runs to power the Blue Jays to a 13-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday to give Toronto its first American League East Division title since 2015.